Under their oversight, Beaumont suffered a precipitous decline in reputation and quality of care. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. He's even willing to. She bolted last month. Disparities in healthcare are typically blamed on racism of U.S. doctors and other health professionals. Support our reporting by becoming aDeadline Detroit memberfor as little as $3 per month. John Fox, the Atlanta carpetbagger who washed up on the shores of southeastern Michigan seven years ago to bolster Beaumont Healths profits and gussy up Metro Detroits biggest hospital network so that he could sell it, appears hes pulled off what he set out to do. By that measure Fox, Wilson, and Wood have poor performance scorecards. I dont know how we could handle a catastrophe, said a source at Royal Oaks ER. The Royal Oak budget cuts were made in 2020, when Beaumont increased its reserves to $3.5 billion from $2.5 billion and Fox earlier in the year warned U.S. hospitals could collapse because of the pandemic. To support Deadline Detroit's independent journalism, please sign up for a $3a month membership or a one-time donation. Spectrum has also been embroiled in controversy that made national news. Far from it. Ohios AG has won a series of landmark settlements taking on healthcare companies. September 15, 2020, 9:36 PM . As Deadline Detroit recently reported, Beaumonts once-bustling endoscopy suite, where a patient died undergoing a routine colonoscopy in January, has suffered a rash of nurse resignations and can barely operate at 50 percent capacity. The promised dual headquarters was also BS. Henry Ford Hospital announced this week that it was closing 120 inpatient beds systemwide due to staffing shortages. Companies often create diversity positions for window dressing purposes. The quality of care has declined to such a degree that insiders readily admit they wouldnt entrust their families care to the hospital. A trade publication quoted Freese Decker today as saying theres widespread enthusiasm in western and southeastern Michigan for the merger. Given that a survey of Beaumont doctors revealed last year they had no confidence in Fox, Wilson, and chief medical officer David Wood Jr., recruiting top quality executives to Beaumont is a near impossible challenge with Fox and Wilson at the helm. Fox also disclosed that Beaumont has earmarked $40 million to purchase state-of-the-art beds, some of which are already being delivered. And there is no mention of what, if any, role Beaumont COO Carolyn Wilson will play after the merger. Nursing shortages are causing havoc at other Beaumont hospitals as well. Newsweek Ranks 3 Beaumont Hospitals Among Best in U.S. One Down, Three to Go. More importantly, I doubt that Spectrums doctors would feel the need to circumvent management in the first place. Beaumont CEO Fox and COO Wilson Must Go Now! Beaumont Beaumont employees and vendors are encouraged to reach out, with confidentiality assured. Fox took his marching orders from John Lewis, a retired Comerica executive who came from Oakwood and was named chairman of the combined organizations. A Grand Rapids television station revealed that operating room OBGYN doctors were posting photos on social media of them holding up surgically removed organ and tissue material as part of a game they likened to The Price Is Right. The report by NBC affiliate WOODis a classic worth watching because the reporter cant believe what shes actually reporting. If (Beaumonts) operating margins are adequate, and they have plenty of cash, whats the problem? The nursing shortage has forced Beaumont Royal Oak to use so-called travel nurses from temp agencies to hold things together in the ER, but this is sparking additional resentment. Though a far cry from what Beaumont Health was before CEO John Fox and COO Carolyn Wilson arrived, Spectrum is a quality healthcare company overseen by a responsible board comprised of directors who are pillars of western Michigans business communities. The Beaumont Health System, comprised of Royal Oak, Troy, and Grosse Pointe hospitals, was far superior and the expectation was that the merger would elevate the quality of staff and patient care at the Oakwood and Botsford hospitals. A source told me that Barbee was highly regarded among Spectrums Black employees but was frustrated by his inability to achieve meaningful change. Theres no prestige working at Beaumont anymore. 'The Week That Was:' Will Kristina Karamo Seriously Damage Michigan's Republican Party? Susan Grant, the chief nursing officer for all of Beaumont, has her primary home in Atlanta. According to a source, some travel nurses are being paid lucrative wages to work only three or four shifts a week. When you sign the documents that will permanently change this region, your signature will forever hold you accountable for the repercussions, Freed said in a letterhe posted on LinkedIn. We are incredibly excited about the impact the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program will have in health care and for our communities.. Freed was CFO of Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health for nearly 19 years, and later headed the hospital companys lucrative Priority Health insurance arm for six years. If there was an annual award for the healthcare industrys biggest chump, I defy anyone to propose a more worthy recipient than Tina Freese Decker, CEO of Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health. In addition to her Beaumont debacle, theres been considerable turnover in Spectrums senior ranks, mostly women. Understandably, Spectrum is a more profitable hospital system, but its profits also are bolstered by its lucrative Priority Health insurance arm. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. This is Beaumont's latest attempt to merge with another hospital . But ER nurses are angry with Melissa Foreman Lovell, Troys chief nursing officer, who they say rarely appears at the hospital. That amounts to a Spectrum takeover in my book. Its totally bizarre.. Merging with Beaumont would more than double Spectrums size in some areas. Spectrum, with $6.9 billion in revenues, operates 14 hospitals in the western side of the stateand has 30,000 employees. June 17, 2021, 9:36 PM . Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. Starkman: Electric Vehicles and the Exploitation of Michigan Taxpayers. Freed might want to reach out to Mark Shaevsky, a prominent southeastern Michigan attorney and a former Beaumont board member before it merged with two lesser hospital companies in 2014. Fox and spinmeister Geary have a history of making statements that are deceptive and misleading, a compilation of which can be found here. Meet Michael Freed, decidedly among the bravest persons in . The rankings are based on data compiled before Beaumont Royal Oak outsourced its anesthesia services, a controversial move linked to the death of a patient undergoing a routine colonoscopy and another patient landing in the ICU because of a pain medication overdose. This columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs atStarkman Approved. To support Deadline Detroit's independent. The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs atStarkman Approved. Spectrum and Beaumont are not corporate equals. At Beaumont's Royal Oak, Troy, and Grosse Pointe hospitals an elite team of more than 70 anesthesiologists trained and experienced with intubation performed all the procedures. My sense about Spectrum is that if doctors had serious patient safety concerns and felt the need to circumvent management to get them addressed, the hospital companys board would take the matter quite seriously. In his video, Fox was wearing a pinstripe suit jacket, not his trademark blue blazer. In April 2020, at the height of Michigan's pandemic, Metro Detroit's biggest hospital system called Beaumont Health without explanation closed its facility designated to treat Covid patients . In quickly reviewing Spectrums website and news releases, I can't find evidence that Freese Decker has expressed the belief that Spectrum needed to achieve considerable size to survive and remain competitive. After posting his letter, Freed noted on his LinkedIn page that Beaumont made $167 million from its operations in 2020, which included revenue recognition of $349 million from the CARES Act and FEMA payments for Covid. The head of Beaumonts audit committee was Julie Fream, who earlier this month became the hospital networks chair and has no auditing experience or background listed on her LinkedIn page. Southeastern Michigan residents shouldnt look to Rep. Andy Levin to save the day. BHSHs management team is comprised entirely of Spectrum executives, except Beaumont Royal Oak president Nancy Susick, who has been named interim president of what is being called BHSH Beaumont Health. One of the deciding factors in evaluating merging Beaumont and Spectrum will be the financial terms of the deal. Spectrum no doubt knew that Fox was desperate to unload Beaumont, so Freese Decker had him by the cajones. Beaumont CEO John Fox is headed for the door Friday. He's even willing to. It speaks volumes that Spectrum Health CEO Tina Freese Decker and her fellow directors have chosen to get into bed with the directors who are ultimately responsible for the implosion of Beaumont Health. Spectrum was projecting a loss of $57.1 million, which . The FTC decision to implicitly rubber stamp Spectrums takeover underscores the weakness of President Bidens leadership and the little respect he commands, even among his own appointees. Spectrums four-person communications team also ignored a request for comment. Fox has a change of control clause in his contract, meaning he will likely receive a lucrative exit package. Fox previously disclosed he talked to more than 100 hospital systems hoping to find a corporate bride for Beaumont. Rather than having people speculate he was passed over, he chose to step down in advance. A responsible board would have fired Fox months ago and brought in an interim CEO with strong ties to southeastern Michigan to try and stabilize the place. Beaumont does not have a good reputation regarding how they treat employees. Freese Deckers bio said her biggest priority is building a health system that celebrates and reinforces diversity and inclusion for employees, patients, families, and members. Yet the entire BHSH senior management team as best I can tell is as lily white as a loaf of Wonder bread. Beaumont Troy is a Level II and must also be prepared to handle a wide range of emergencies. Reach the writer ateric@starkmanapproved.com. 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